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The Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca) wɑˈhɑkə, in Spanish phonemically /oa'xaka/, named for its largest city, is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the southern part of the country, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Oaxaca borders the states of Guerrero to the west, Puebla to the northwest, Veracruz to the north, Chiapas to the east, and the Pacific Ocean in the south.
Oaxaca, the historic home of the Zapotec and Mixtec peoples, contains more speakers of indigenous languages than any other Mexican state.
With an area of 36,820.2 mi² (95,364 km²)[citation needed], Oaxaca is the fifth largest state in the Republic. According to the 2005 census it had a population of 3,506,821 people.
Notable Oaxacans include President Benito Juárez, born in the Oaxacan village of San Pablo Guelatao, as well as Rufino Tamayo, Porfirio Diaz, José Vasconcelos, Francisco Toledo, María Sabina, J. Alberto Canseco Díaz, Major League Baseball player Vinicio Castilla, chemical engineer Marco Rito-Palomares and many other writers, artists and politicians.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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